Ghana: Outrage At Law

Dictator Kwame Nkrumah outdid himself last
week. He not only flatly refused to free three political prisoners who
had been acquitted by Ghana's highest court, but he summarily fired the
judge who had presided over their trial.

The defendants, five in all, were charged with treason after Nkrumah was
wounded in the shoulder by a bomb in an attempt on his life in August
1962.

The dictator's tame press had repeatedly condemned them in advance. But
Chief Justice Sir Arku Korsah, who headed the three-man court, chose to
ignore the hint. At the...